Religion: Innocent Abroad?

To the religious groups with which the Russian Government is playing
footieArabs, Orthodox, Jews, assorted small groups from Moscow to
KhabarovskJoseph Stalin added another: the Baptists, U.S.A.

The Rev. Louie De Votie Newton, 54, president of the Southern Baptist
Convention, a native, resident and leader in the South, might be
expected to be somewhat anti-Soviet. But last week when he came home to
Atlanta from a whirlwind trip through the U.S.S.R. he was brimming with
enthusiasm for what he had seen and been told. In 25 short days, the
Russians had made Dr. Louie Newton a booster.